Animals Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“He who can deliberately inflict torture upon an animal, in order to heighten the pleasure his palate is to receive in eating it, is…

— William Cobbett

“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“No animal suffers worse than a human being.”

— Patrick White

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Pain is pain, whether it be inflicted on man or beast; and the creature that suffers it, whether man or beast, being sensible of…

— Humphry Primatt

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible of happiness?…

— Jeremy Bentham

“People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing. Three…

— Mary Shelley

“Animals suffer both emotionally and physically, but they don't suffer metaphysically. That is, they don't suffer about suffering, don't get thrown into spiritual confusion…

— Linda Bender

“(’No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.’)”

— Jonathan Glover

“The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.”

— Emile Zola